Véronique IZARD

Scientific interests : In my research, I am trying to understand the foundations of mathematical thinking. How much of mathematical thinking is grounded on universal, spontaneous intuitions that are common to all human beings? What part of mathematics consists in cultural inventions, transmitted through generations? I work with infants and children in France, and with a people from the Amazon, the Mundurucus, studying the acquisition of numbers and geometry.

Izard V. (2010). Geometry: A Universal Mental Construction. Paper presented at the 24th International Symposium on Attention and Performance, France.

Katz R, de Hevia MD, Izard V, Spelke ES. (2010). High Tones and High Places: Infants' mapping across tonal and spatial dimensions. Paper presented at the International Conference on Infant Studies, Baltimore, Maryland.

Gentaz E, Izard V, Cheam C. (2009). Five year old children and adults spontaneously draw similar rectangles and triangles but not in the golden ratio. Paper presented at the International Graphonomics Society, Dijon, France.

Izard V. (2009). A universal developmental path in the construction of exact number concepts. Paper presented at the Workshop on Cultural Effects on the Mental Number Line, University of York, UK.

Izard V, Pica P, Dehaene S, Spelke ES. (2009). Intuitions for Multiplication in Amazonian Adults and in U.S. Adults and Children. Paper presented at the Society for Research in Child Development Biennial Meeting (SRCD), Denver, Colorado.

Grace AD, Izard V, Shutts K, Dehaene S, Pica P, Spelke ES. (2006). Sensitivity to geometry in male and female children and adults in the U.S. and in an Amazonian indigene group. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Vision Science Society, Sarasota, Florida.

Izard V, Pica P, Lemer C, Dehaene S. (2005). The role of the language in the development of numerical knowledge. Paper presented at the NUMBRA summer school, Erice, Sicily.

Izard V, Pica P, Lemer C, Dehaene S. (2005). What is universal in numbers ?. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the European Society for Cognitive Psychology (ESCOP), University of Leiden, the Netherlands.

Izard V, Dehaene S. (2004). Calibrating of numerosity estimation :evidence for a logarithmic number line. Paper presented at the Annual meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society (CNS), San Francisco, California.